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Downtown Long Beach will be bathed in red Wednesday in support of World AIDS Day.

Several of the city’s most notable structures will be lit with red lights for the night after Mayor Bob Foster flips the switch at a 5:30 p.m. rally in front of the Long Beach Performing Arts Center’s Terrace Theater, according to an article by Paul Eakins in the P-T.

Following the rally, more than a dozen downtown restaurants will donate a portion of their dinner sales to four local nonprofits that focus on HIV and AIDS. A free after-party will take place at 8 p.m. at SIP Lounge at the Renaissance Hotel, 111 E. Ocean Blvd.

The entire event is called (Long Beach)Red.

Across town at the Art Theatre, 2025 E. 4th St., the Long Beach AIDS Foundation is having an event for World AIDS Day from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. The educational but entertaining night will include free food, prizes, interactive art, a film presentation, a performance by the South Coast Chorale and free HIV testing, according to the article.

The Long Beach AIDS Foundation is one of the four nonprofits that will benefit from the downtown restaurants’ donations. The other three are the Wells House Hospice Foundation, The Center’s HIV counseling and testing program, and the Long Beach C.A.R.E. Program.

“Twilight” hottie Taylor Lautner (right) and “Gossip Girl” cutie Chace Crawford (left) are in the running for roles in the film version of a book about serving in the armed forces as a closeted gay man, according to the New York Post.

The 2007 book, “Here’s What We’ll Say: Growing Up, Coming Out and the U.S. Air Force Academy,” was written by “A-List” star and “Amazing Race” winner Reichen Lehmkuhl (center), a former Air Force captain.

Lehmkuhl, who once dated Lance Bass, has campaigned for gay rights in the military.

Casting already has begun in New York and Los Angeles and producers have their eyes on Lautner and Crawford, according to the article.

TV Land announced today it has approved a new pilot by Fran Drescher and Peter Marc Jacobson, her ex-husband, about how Drescher deals with dating after learning her husband is gay.

Written by Drescher and Jacobson and based on Drescher’s real life, “Happily Divorced” will focus on how Drescher juggles her relationship with her boyfriend and ex-husband post-divorce.

No information was available on a potential broadcast date for the pilot.

In June, Drescher went public saying Jacobson – who she was married for more than 21 years – is gay. The two married in 1978 and divorced in 1999. Jacobson told Drescher he is gay after they divorced, she said.

The two previously worked together on the super successful “The Nanny,” which starred Drescher. They co-created it, and Jacobson also wrote, directed and produced for the comedy, which ran from 1993 to 1999.

UCLA distinguished scholar Gary Gates has been named to Out magazine’s annual 100 List.

Gates is a distinguished scholar at the Charles R. Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA’s law school.

In Out’s words:

“Gary Gates is an academic pioneer. His doctoral dissertation included the first significant research study using U.S. census data to explore characteristics of same-sex couples. With degrees in computer science, divinity, and public policy, his next feat was coauthoring The Gay and Lesbian Atlas in 2004, an encyclopedic text on the demography of gays and lesbians.”